Required skimming: media news aggregators not named Romenesko

(Only because everyone knows about him already)

This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food. If we overlooked any of your must-read destinations, please tell us in the comments.

• Mediagazer: Half man, half machine, Mediagazer combines automated aggregation with flesh-and-blood editors to provide a homepage full of headlines that’s well worth scrolling through from time to time.

• Muck Rack: Perhaps the most addicting of all the media aggregators, Muck Rack takes a full day of journalists’ tweets and summarizes them into a coherent conversation—now you can stop checking in every two minutes and actually get some work done.

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